Do you ever feel completely tangled? You know, that feeling when you have ideas, which are intertwined with goals and mixed with to-do lists, and oh another amazing idea just popped up, and, and and….Phew!
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A few weeks ago I polled a few groups of people about their creativity, in particular, I asked what it was that held them back from their creativity. (And to be clear, when I speak of creativity, I don't just mean the visual arts, I am speaking to any form of creating...from dance, to painting, to cooking, to writing, to planning a party).
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Today I want to share something that I often say to my daughter (and I suspect many other parents say to their children as well). It’s a few simple words that I feel, can be pretty powerful.
“Let’s do it together”
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The thing about creativity is that it requires a bit of trial and error and it often leaves us uncertain about the outcome. It also requires us to be vulnerable, especially when putting part of ourselves into our work for others to see or experience. And that, my friends, is exactly when fear likes to makes it’s appearance known.
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I think we all have a general understanding of what creativity is. It’s something that is used by all of us daily, whether we realize it or not. We were all born with creativity inside of us, because we ourselves, are a creation! Even so, it’s sometimes still a hard thing for us to recognize.
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Goodness knows that things aren't easy right now. Whether you are working through overwhelm, stress at work or home, feeling the enormity of the virus which is still hovering around us or feeling disconnected from yourself or others, it can all feel like a lot...because it is!
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There is a perception out there, that creativity is only associated with artists. That it’s only available to a select vibrant group of people who paint or dance or act. But that just isn’t true. Creativity exists in all of us and we all use it, in one way or another, each and every day.
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It’s sometimes so hard to know where to start. Whether we are beginning something brand new, picking up where we left off or just brainstorming about the next thing, we can often feel very stuck, especially at the beginning.
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Integrity. It’s a nice word isn’t it? But have you ever really, really thought about integrity as it applies to your own life? It becomes a bit more scary when we do that because it begins to hold us accountable to our own values, our own truths and our own standards. It begins to make us think about:
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